Improve zh-TW Traditional Chinese locale #2305
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@PeterDaveHello I asked Roo to update its translation instructions based on the changes in this PR. Do these look like they're on the right track?
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@mrubens The direction looks fine, but there's a fundamental challenge: Given that Chinese content is already a minority in global internet training data, and Traditional Chinese data is significantly less available compared to Simplified Chinese, this naturally becomes a weakness for LLMs. This is likely a common challenge for many non-mainstream languages - while LLM translations might be generally comprehensible, they often lack naturalness and clarity in certain areas. Of course, we all acknowledge this is already a substantial improvement over traditional machine translation. From my experience, while frontier models like GPT-4.5, Claude 3.5, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Mistral Large 2, Grok 3 show relatively better performance in Traditional Chinese, they still require extensive prompt engineering, particularly to avoid confusion with some Simplified Chinese terms. If we could integrate this workflow into the project, I'd be happy to help optimize the prompts. Meanwhile, I'll continue providing manual translations and revisions periodically. One potential improvement would be instructing LLMs to reference existing human-edited translations and maintain consistency with the English source, which might yield better results. |
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This is a follow-up to #2233, addressing some missing and newly found improvements from the real-use scenario with enough context. I believe this will really help make the zh-TW Traditional Chinese locale sound more natural and professional and less machine- or AI-translated (as I guess this is how the original version came about).
Summary from GitHub Copilot for your reference:
This pull request includes several changes to the Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) localization files to improve translations and consistency across the project. The main updates focus on refining terminology, enhancing readability, and ensuring uniformity in the translated content.
Localization improvements:
locales/zh-TW/README.md: Updated various terms and phrases for better clarity and consistency, such as changing "自定義" to "自訂" and "文件" to "檔案". [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/common.json: Enhanced translation accuracy for confirmation messages, error messages, warnings, and other interface elements. [1] [2]src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/tools.json: Improved translation for line range descriptions in thereadFiletool.webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/chat.json: Refined translations for directory operation messages to ensure better understanding.Important
Improves zh-TW Traditional Chinese localization by refining translations for clarity and consistency across multiple files.
README.md: Updated terms for clarity, e.g., "自定義" to "自訂", "文件" to "檔案".common.json: Enhanced translation accuracy for confirmation, error, and warning messages.tools.json: Improved translation for line range descriptions inreadFiletool.chat.json: Refined translations for directory operation messages.This description was created by
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